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MicroVision Receives $14.5 Million in Orders

by Tom Allen

Microvision has said that it has received orders totalling $14.5 million for its Fortune Global 100 customer – revealed, last week, to be Sony (Sony Agrees Licensing With Microvision). The company plans to ship …

Competition Shifts Tablet Share Away From Dominant Brands

by Tom Allen

Apple and Samsung, the tablet market’s leading vendors, will see their market share fall in the coming years, says Juniper Research. New players introducing low-cost models and new form factors will be responsible for …

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 12

by Tom Allen

Avnet Embedded is now stocking a 2.2″ transflective TFT-LCD module from Logic Technologies in EMEA. Under high ambient light, the (LED) backlight is not required. The LTTD240320022-L3-TF will be available for at least three …

Synaptics Combines Touch and Display Driver

by Tom Allen

Synaptics has developed the Clearpad 4191 and Clearpad 4291: the world’s first touch and display driver integration (TDDI) solutions for smartphones and tablets, according to the company. These new solutions combine the touch controller …

Toshiba Produces Tiny Convertible PC

by Tom Allen

The Satellite Click Mini L9W-B-102 is a new convertible tablet from Toshiba, offering up to 13 hours of battery life in notebook mode. The device is a very small “Windows 8.1 With Bing” model …

Midwich Expands Technical Sales Team

by Helen Vince

Midwich has appointed Steve Goodwin to its technical sales team. Goodwin has worked in the past on many higher education procurement frameworks with system integrators, such as Impact Marcom.

Power Transfer Moves Towards Space-Based Energy Harvesting

by Tom Allen

Japan is resource-poor, so for many years has been investing in research for alternative energy sources other than fossil fuels. The latest breakthrough comes from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which hopes to …

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Fujitsu Aims to Liquid-Cool Mobile Devices

by Tom Allen

Fujitsu uses liquid cooling in its SPARC servers, and is preparing a similar system for mobile devices. Liquid Loop Cooling is a closed system using pumps to move coolant around a motherboard, although pumps …

Swiss Manufacturer Enters ‘Smartwatch’ Market

by Tom Allen

Swiss watch maker Breitling has taken the step to produce a ‘smartwatch’ (of sorts) called the B55 Connected. It is an analogue chronograph with a digital display, able to connect to a mobile phone …

Tags:Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 22 - Issue 12

30% Yield Rate Rumoured for Apple Watch

by Tom Allen

G is For Games claims that Quanta, which manufactures the Apple Watch, has a yield rate of just 30%. It is unclear at this time what is causing the problems. Quanta has taken on …

Tags:Apple| Apple Watch (iWatch)| Mobile Display Monitor| Supply Chain| Vol 22 - Issue 12

Samsung Commits to Premium Materials

by Tom Allen

Joint Samsung CEO Shin Jong-Kyun has said that the company will launch more mobile devices using premium materials in the future. Shin specifically mentioned high-resolution displays, metal bodies and slim designs. The news follows …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| Vol 22 - Issue 12

Slight Increase in Long-Term PC Forecast, Says IDC

by Tom Allen

PC shipments worldwide will fall by 4.9% YoY in 2015, says IDC, which has revised its previous forecast down from a 3.3% fall. At the same time, growth predictions for 2016 and 2017 were …